Moral Quotes
The moral equation strongly tells everyone who understands freedom, who understands morality, that Israel is engaging in a just war in defense of its people and its freedom.
A man's penmanship is an unfailing index of his character, moral and mental, and a criterion by which to judge his peculiarities of taste and sentiments.
The Koran does not permit Mohammedans to drink. Their natural instincts do not permit them to be moral. They say the Sultan has eight hundred wives. This almost amounts to bigamy.
That is the moral of this story, kids. No matter how many people try to stomp on your happiness, you have the power to do whatever you want with your life.
And what sort of lives do these people, who pose as being moral, lead themselves? My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite.
You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.
Education becomes most rich and alive when it confronts the reality of moral conflict in the world.
May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children.
Equality of rights means that some people cannot simply impose obligations on others, for the moral agency and rights of those others would then be violated.
We become responsible for the actions of others the instant we become conscious of what they are doing wrong and fail to remind them of what is right.
I've a problem with the word charity because I think that NGOs, as I prefer calling them, really do take the work of moral and social responsibilities that ought to be taken on by governments.
Every free action has two causes that come together to produce it. One is moral, the will that determines the act; the other is physical, the power that executes the will to act.
The moral faculties are generally and justly esteemed as of higher value than the intellectual powers.
To avert disaster, we have not only to teach men to make things but to teach them to have complete moral control over what they make.
A country that demands moral perfection in its foreign policy will achieve neither perfection nor security.
The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe.
How we become moral and understand good and bad, and how we overcome our impulse towards violence, is all really important to me, as a person.
A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
Budgets are moral documents. Federal funding should reflect the priorities and the values of the majority of the American people.
The international community has the moral responsibility of aiding a people under occupation; however, we will not beg for their money.
Our culture is in moral chaos. On TV we celebrate freaks instead of honest, decent people.
I surrendered my moral conscience to the fact that I was a soldier, and therefore a cog in a relatively low position of a great machine.
Strong moral character results from consistent correct choices in the trials and testing of life. Your faith can guide you to those correct choices.
The Church is not a political power, nor a political party, but rather a moral reality, a moral force.
Reliable scientific knowledge is value free and has no moral or ethical value. Science tells us how the world is. ... Dangers and ethical issue arise only when science is applied as technology.
Some people think that words can injure the psyche or the moral fiber. And they really can't.
The cure for false theology is motherwit. Forget your books and traditions, and obey your moral perceptions at this hour.
We have a very foolish notion in Western countries that progress delivers freedom. But progress doesn't necessarily bring moral virtue.
When we do in Grenada what the Soviet Union did in Czechoslovakia and Afghanistan, we lose moral authority and credibility.
Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.
There is a kinship, a kind of freemasonry, between all persons of intelligence, however antagonistic their moral outlook.
A play that forces us to question our moral responsibility to the victims of human rights abuse.
For the Puritans, the God-centered life meant making the quest for spiritual and moral holiness the great business of life.
My work is based on the assumption that clarity and consistency in our moral thinking is likely, in the long run, to lead us to hold better views on ethical issues.
We can tolerate great diversity in our aesthetic beliefs, but we can't tolerate much diversity in our moral beliefs.
Leaders shouldn?t attach moral significance to their ideas: Do that, and you can?t compromise.
I never really saw myself as an activist but at some point the activist is the only moral position to take.
States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
Most people believe you have to have some moral absolutes if you want to hold back chaos.